Growing up Finn

This is Finn at 11-months-old.


This is Finn at 3-months-old.

Agility

I took these photos in May 2007 at an outdoor agility trial in Savage, MN. I went to practice shooting movement. But a dog jumping looks like every other dog jumping. I like to find interaction between people and their dogs as well as dogs in action. I take photos (or video) at every dog event I can attend.

Dogs

Java Waits to be Noticed

Photographing Dogs

I took a photo of the Blue-dog over the deck rails. (Tayja puts that ugly scarve on the poor dog every morning so Blue doesn't have to be "nekkid.")

Then I took the photo thurough the deck rails. It changes the mood of the photo and adds a layer of interest.

It is a still different and more interesting photo in my opinion when I zoomed in and turned the camera to vertical.

And now I just show one of Blue's eyes watching me.


Tech notes: All the photos were spot focused (in auto ) on Blue's right eye. My ISO was 100. Shutter speed was 1/250. My F-stop was f/4.0 on the ones through the fence and f/5.6 on the first one. I used a 70 to 200 mm zoom lens set at 120.0 mm on all (except the first photo). The eye photo was cropped out of a larger frame. I picked f/4 as my f-stop for through the rails because I wanted Blue's eye and muzzle to be sharp but I wanted just a hint of the deck rails. Blue was below and about five feet way from the rails. I used an ISO was 100 because I knew that I had plenty of light with the brightness reflecting off of the snow. The day is overcast which is a very pretty time to take photos out side.

Training Games

Chewing a cookie

Holding a dumb

Waiting for a click

Checking the camera bag

Leaping for joy

A boy and his dog

Both the dobe and the boy are both just under 2 years old.

Rally

Chester

Chester, the 10-month-old Basset hound, is in my Monday morning manners class. He cracks me up. Tech note: When I get down on my elbows to photographer Chester, he ends up sitting on my head or targeting the lens neither of which makes for an attractive photograph.